Thirty-one hours that ended an era at Stamford Bridge

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Tuesday, 9.40pm Jos? Mourinho spends two minutes in the dressing-room after the 1-1 draw with Rosenborg. He has an equally brief exchange with Roman Abramovich in the players’ lounge.

Wednesday, 2.30pm Mourinho is called to a meeting at Stamford Bridge with Abramovich, Peter Kenyon, the chief executive, and Eugene Tenenbaum, the director, to discuss Chelsea’s stuttering start to the season and a feeling that differences between manager and owner had become irreconcilable. Tenenbaum is understood to have articulated Abramovich’s frustrations over results, the team’s playing style and Mourinho’s public outbursts, with the Portuguese sarcastically responding by asking which manager in